A 26-year-old Nigerian man stopped at Dublin Airport has been refused bail after he was intercepted attempting to fly to Canada using a fake Portuguese passport.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim Makonjuola, with an address in Clondalkin, Dublin, appeared before Judge Karen Dowling following his arrest at departures in Terminal 1 on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
He is charged under Section 12 of the Immigration Act for failing to produce a valid passport or identity document on demand while being a non-national.<\/p>\n
He faces a further charge under the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act for possession of a false instrument, namely a fake Portuguese passport.<\/p>\n
Garda Eimhin Walsh objected to bail, telling Dublin District Court that the accused was intercepted at the airport “with two massive suitcases” attempting to board a flight to Canada.<\/p>\n
Garda Walsh stated that the accused was using a false document and had no valid documentation establishing his true identity. He added that official checks had verified the passport was not authentic.<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor Edward Bradbury applied for bail, arguing that his client had originally arrived in Ireland via Cyprus from Nigeria, because his life was “in danger in Lagos”.<\/p>\n
Bradbury argued that Makonjuola could be granted bail with strict conditions, including regular signing on at a local Garda station.<\/p>\n
He told the court that while the accused did not have a valid passport, he had a residence in the city and had maintained known addresses in Ireland since his arrival in the State.<\/p>\n
Bradbury also stressed that while Makonjuola received a social welfare payment, he was of limited means. The judge noted he still had a flight ticket to Canada.<\/p>\n
The solicitor added that he was confident the case could be finalised within the next couple of months and urged the court to admit his client to bail.<\/p>\n
Refusing the application, Judge Dowling agreed that the accused maintained the presumption of innocence but ruled that he was a flight risk.<\/p>\n
She remanded Makonjuola in custody to appear again at Cloverhill District Court later this week. Legal aid was granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old Nigerian man stopped at Dublin Airport has been refused bail after he was intercepted attempting to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-501399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}